Child Protection Procedures - East Ayrshire Council

management of the case (or equivalent) must inform the Service Unit
Manager (Children and Families) immediately. The Service Unit
Manager (Children and Families) must immediately contact the
Social work Department responsible for the new address to alert that
department to the arrival of a registered child/ren in its area. Initial
contact should be made by telephone followed by confirmation in
writing of the interim arrangements for the management of the case.
All relevant information should then immediately be sent by recorded
delivery.
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(h)
If a child is subject to compulsory measures of supervision through
the Children’s Hearing systemthe Authority Reporter for East
Ayrshire Council must also be immediately notified both verbally and
in writing by the Team Leader with responsibility for the management
of the case/or equivalent.
The Service Unit Manager (Children and Families) or their nominated
substitute will ensure that the change of address is amended on the
East Ayrshire Register and the Central Child Protection Register
(held by the West of Scotland Standby Service) pending formal
transfer of the case.
The Service Unit Manager (Children and Families)will ensure that
appropriate staff will attend any transfer Case Conference to which
they are invited.
The Service Unit Manager (Children and Families) or nominated
substitute for the East Ayrshire Register will be responsible for
initiating and chairing a transfer Child Protection Case Conference
with professionals from the area where the child now resides, to
ensure that they are fully informed of the present circumstances and
that the Child Protection Plan is reviewed and if necessary a new one
formulated to take account of the new circumstances.
The Service Unit Manager (Children and Families) will also clarify
with the appropriate personnel in the receiving authority that all the
relevant information and paperwork has been made available to
them.
This transfer Case Conference must be held within fourteen working
days of the family moving or within seven working days if there is a
dispute regarding whose responsibility it is to manage the case until
the case has been officially transferred.
Following the Child Protection Transfer Case Conference in the new
area, the child’s name will be removed from the Register of the area
of origin and added to the register of the area where the child
currently resides.
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